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- From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: CDTV is dead.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.220941.770@pro-freedom.cts.com>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 05:09:41 GMT
- Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Aug14.220941.770
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- > Well, I was talking about the A570, which is for the A500. Other
- > solutions (like ram loaded libraries) are certainly possible for
- > machines with a hard drive and enough ram.
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- I understand that and was attempting to get us A2000 and A3000 users into
- the CDROM picture. It's amazing technology with barely scratched potential
- and it's expensive enough that it seems most useful for systems that are
- not entry level machines as many A500s are. I know that I can add a SCSI
- CDROM drive to my A3000 and it will work just fine. It will not run the
- CDROM disks that require CDXL, such as NASA's 25 Years. There needs to be
- a solution to this problem as partial compatibility with a standard device,
- such as CDTV, is a royal pain in the rear that will inhibit CDROM usage on
- the A2000/3000 computers. I think that CDTV softwar edevelopment will
- suffer unless lots of Amiga users can be convinced to add CDROM drives to
- their machines, buy software, and inject enough cash into CDROM software
- development to drive that business. Any idea whether CBM has interest in
- licensing the CDXL technology? That would help end a lot of the problems
- associated with CDROM disks that require CDXL to operate correctly or at
- all for that matter. Thanks for the reply,
-
-
- Regards,
-
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